LISS.382 ENVIRONMENT and HUMAN ADAPTATION: PRE-EUROPEAN
SOUTHWEST

LISS.382 (2hr) ENVIRONMENT and HUMAN ADAPTATION: PRE-EUROPEAN
SOUTHWEST
traces the evolution of technology and human environmental
adaptations from the adoption of agriculture to European contact in
three representative areas of the Greater Southwest -- the San Juan
Basin, the Gila-Salt Basin and the Mimbres Basin.

Emphasis is on technology choice and its long term
social and ecological consequences including the gradual
development of complex societies and their sudden "collapse".

The course includes films, museum visits, and hands on experience
with artifacts.
The term paper
assignment may be presented as a multi-media, hypertext
document.

This course is one in a
sequence of four courses.
tracing the evolution of technology and human environmental
adaptations in selected regions in the New World from the
arrival of human populations to the present.

More detailed information can be obtained by "clicking" on
individual items in the list below and by e-mail from the
instructor at the address below.